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People First

Each member of the ATL team has led a career dedicated to focusing on our teams (our people) to get results. We know what it takes to inspire people to achieve unimaginable goals.

Engagement & Accountability

We believe in the power of engagement and accountability, and have seen companies grow and redefine themselves when their people are engaged and challenged.

Culture Focused

Each member of our team understands the importance and value of organizational cultures and we specialize in creating culturally-relevant solutions that align to needs.

Having engaged employees results in high-performance teams and cultures where people can thrive! This translates into bottom line results for you and your business!

I started ATL because I have a passion for people, and because I understand how critical it is for a business to have employees who are engaged and feel appreciated. Businesses tend to focus on operational aspects, and in many cases, take their employees for granted. That’s where we can help. ATL can help increase employee engagement, help develop future leaders, and can create cultures where people thrive resulting in higher revenue growth and profit margins.

– Tanya Lauer, CEO and Founder of Above The Tree Line

Built for Agile

Our team is nimble and adaptable.  Our sweet spot and where we feel we can make the biggest improvements is with companies of 300 employees or less.

Always With You

Our passion and purpose is to be there in the trenches with you, every step of the way, from the first conversation to the final step of the project.

Discovery Ready

We have a talent for achieving results. If things aren’t entirely clear, but you know something needs to be done, we have tools and insights that enable you to find answers.

Individual Services Tailored For Your Needs

Something different that you are looking for? Let’s have a conversation! Our Strategic Partner network offers many additional possibilities and solutions!

Cultural Growth

Enhancing Teamwork

Does your team know how to tap into each other’s strengths? Navigate conflict? How to effectively collaborate? Do they trust each other? If the answer is no to any of these questions, your team could use a little help to maximize their results, which translates to profitable growth! Call us to talk about teamwork training today, and feel more confident about achieving results and exceeding goals!

Culture Assessment

Do any of these indicators listed below resonate with you? If so, you most likely are working in a toxic culture. Call us today to schedule a thorough assessment!

  • People operate from a place of fear
  • High turnover
  • Poor communication
  • People feel unappreciated
  • Negative feedback is the only type of feedback given
  • Leaders blame others when things go wrong
  • Feedback is not solicited, and sometimes frowned upon
  • No one speaks up when someone has a bad idea (reluctance to debate or challenge)
  • Anxiety is high – everyone seems on edge

Culture Transformation

Are you ready to create a culture where people thrive? Are you not sure how to do this or what that even looks like? We can help you take your culture from non-existent or toxic to healthy and vibrant! Call us today to schedule a consultation!

Employee Engagement Tactics

How do you know if your employees are engaged? What does this even look like? Here’s a hint: engaged employees rarely miss work, offer suggestions, ideas, and feedback, volunteer for projects, exceed their goals, and want their friends to work at your company. Does this sound like your team? If not, call us and let’s work on engaging your team today!

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Assessments

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. For leaders, having emotional intelligence is essential for success. EQ training is a set of practical knowledge and skills that help individuals to become fluent in understanding the language of emotions. Do you want to see your team improve in both self-awareness, and in collaborating with and relating to others? If you want your team to flourish is ways you can’t being to imagine, call us today and let’s get this scheduled for you and your team!

Diversity and Inclusion

Are you ready to take your team to the next level? Are you aware of your unconscious biases? (What is an unconscious bias?) This training will equip you and your team to deal with the ever-evolving diversity and inclusion practices in terms of cultural challenges. You will learn behaviors and skills to help your business embrace cultural growth and inclusion and drive employee engagement and productivity. Call us today to discuss how we can create a course specifically for your unique challenges!

Managing Difficult Conversations

Do you avoid people because you don’t want to have THE talk? You know – the talk about that one thing (or several things) you disagree about? Or worse, you need to have a serious talk about a performance issue, and you’re just not sure how to approach the conversation, and as a result you’re dreaming about it at night and not sleeping? If this is you or anyone on your team, let us help you own these conversations! Call us – we can help!

Vistage

It’s still a human world where integrity, experience and relationships matter. Vistage connects the most successful CEOs of small and midsize businesses so — together — we can share expertise, challenge one another to think critically and arrive at better decisions. Through this ongoing collaboration, we build lifelong leadership excellence that elevates companies, strengthens communities, delivers meaningful results and fosters sustainable growth. Our groups are designed for top business leaders who shoulder the weight of their company’s most important decisions. Find out how a CEO peer group, a Key Executive peer group, or one of our other Leadership development peer groups can positively impact your business!

Individual Growth

Leadership Development

What does great leadership look like? We reflect your values and principles in a course that meets the needs of your organization. Whether it’s an intensive two-day course or a year-long cohort, we cover the core leadership principles and competencies that positively impact company culture. During this customized course, we will also review organizational goals and discuss which leadership competencies are instrumental in achieving these goals. Call us today to start the conversation!

Personal & Professional Development

When is the last time any of your employees learned a new skill? Do they know what it takes to get their next promotion? How do their peers view them? If you are unsure about any of these answers, we can help! We will work with you to develop programs that stimulate and engage your team and prepare them for their next opportunity. Call us today and let’s get a conversation on the calendar!

Time Management

Do you have people on your team who are underperforming? Do they complain about having too much to do, or not enough time to do everything? If so, this is the course for you! We will help them understand how to prioritize and manage their time at work (and the hidden benefit is that this works at home, too!). They will feel more in control of their results (and their lives!) and their stress-levels will decrease while their effectiveness and productivity increase. Win – win! Call us to discuss how this training could benefit your team!

Sales Training for Rocket Scientists

Is your product offering highly technical? Are the customer-facing “sales” people the same people who can understand the detailed technical aspects of the products you offer? If so, odds are that these people are not natural born sellers! But we can help! This four part course teaches your technical experts the subtle art of selling and building long-term relationships. Contact us to help you turn your technical team into a selling machine!

Inside Sales Training

Are the people answering your phones simply fulfilling orders or are they selling? Inside Sales people have one of the biggest opportunities to impact sales! Let us teach your Inside Sales team how to build relationships, uncover opportunities, upsell, and grow your sales! Call us today to fully engage your under-utilized Inside Sales team!

Sales Process

Does your team follow a consistent sales process? Or does everyone do their own thing? Businesses that utilize a formal sales process grow their sales an average of 12% over the prior year! In addition, they see an average lift of 1.5% in their margins!  What are you waiting for? Call us today and let us customize a winning program for your team!

Establishing Sales Metrics & Accountability

How do you know if your sales team is performing? What are the right things to measure? How do you hold them accountable? If these are not things you have considered or have in place already, we’ve got you! We have decades of experience in creating metrics and establishing effective tactics for accountability – call us and let us customize a program for you!

Giving Effective Feedback

Have you ever given a performance review that left the individual in tears? Or angry? Or confused? None of those are desired outcomes. Effective performance reviews are honest, goal-based, and inspire action. Even if you’re just sharing feedback in a non-formal setting, we can help you position the feedback so that it is well received and leaves the employee feeling motivated to change. If you need help with this, call us and we can create a formal program (that can be used for informal feedback as well) that enables your leadership team to feel confident when giving feedback!

Vistage

It’s still a human world where integrity, experience and relationships matter. Vistage connects the most successful CEOs of small and midsize businesses so — together — we can share expertise, challenge one another to think critically and arrive at better decisions. Through this ongoing collaboration, we build lifelong leadership excellence that elevates companies, strengthens communities, delivers meaningful results and fosters sustainable growth. Our groups are designed for top business leaders who shoulder the weight of their company’s most important decisions. Find out how a CEO peer group, a Key Executive peer group, or one of our other Leadership development peer groups can positively impact your business!

Company Growth

Change Management

You have acknowledged that you need to make changes. Maybe even BIG changes. But you don’t know where to start. Let us work with you and your leadership team to create a plan that addresses various types of organizational change and maps out key components and timeframes for each step of the process. We make the overwhelming simple.  Call us today to start the conversation!

Organizational Reframing

Is your company stalled? Not experiencing growth? Are departments not performing like they should be? The solution could be as simple as re-aligning teams to maximize engagement and productivity. Our team will take a deep dive into your business to understand what is driving the business, what processes are lacking, if the right leaders are in the right departments, and assessing overall effectiveness of communication. We will then present the results to the leadership team, and help you decide on courses of action. This is a relatively easy-to-implement process that results in actionable solutions that can quickly lead to improved engagement and growth. What are you waiting for? Call us and let us help drive your business to the next level!

Effectively Handling the People Side of M&A

Is your company actively acquiring other companies? Are you excited about the growth opportunities but you don’t have a plan to merge cultures, to cross-train product lines, or to reduce attrition? Let us help you with the often overlooked but super important aspect of M&A – the people. We have led these initiatives and had zero attrition (which was the goal) while jump-starting sales of new product offerings in both companies. Call us and let is help you experience success with the people side of M&A!

Defining Competencies for Various Roles

Have you ever hired employees who “just didn’t work out”? Or have you hired someone who you “had a good feeling about” and they quit two months later? Let us help you take the guesswork out of hiring and decrease your turnover in the process! Our team will work with yours to identify key competencies for various roles and teach you how to interview for these competencies. Call us to learn more about this proven process!

Customized Onboarding

How to you welcome new employees to the company? How do you make them feel important and respected so that they stay? Do you have any type of an on-boarding program or do you just give them a tour, a computer, and a desk and wish them luck? If that’s the case, we can help with that! We facilitate an actual workshop where we engage key leaders in your business and work with them to build out a custom Onboarding Program all within eight hours. Take ownership of making sure that your employees are happy! Call us today for details and let’s get started!

Building Effective Teams

Let’s start with asking about what effective teams need to do: Do they hit their goals? Do they respect each other? Do they challenge each other? Are they collaborative? Do they have clear goals? Do they ask for feedback? If any of the answers to these questions is a “no”, your team is not as effective as it could be. We offer customized one or two day courses that help your leaders to build their dream teams! Give us a call to discuss in more detail!

Collaboration for Winning Teams

Does your team know how to tap into each other’s strengths? Navigate conflict? Do they trust each other? If the answer is no to any of these questions, your team could use a little help with collaboration to maximize their results, which translates to profitable growth! Call us to talk about teamwork collaboration training today, and feel more confident about achieving results and exceeding goals!

Vistage

It’s still a human world where integrity, experience and relationships matter. Vistage connects the most successful CEOs of small and midsize businesses so — together — we can share expertise, challenge one another to think critically and arrive at better decisions. Through this ongoing collaboration, we build lifelong leadership excellence that elevates companies, strengthens communities, delivers meaningful results and fosters sustainable growth. Our groups are designed for top business leaders who shoulder the weight of their company’s most important decisions. Find out how a CEO peer group, a Key Executive peer group, or one of our other Leadership development peer groups can positively impact your business!

Consulting

Hiring Right Workshop

What if your company could hire effectively and consistently – without ever paying expensive recruiter fees? Sound too good to be true? It’s not! Hiring Right is a private, intensive workshop lead by our Strategic Partner, Kristi Dean. During the training, Jackie and her team will come to your location, teach you her “secret sauce,” diagnose your specific hiring glitches, and prescribe a detailed Rx for how to fix them! Call us for more information or to schedule your workshop!

Executive Team Dynamics – Meeting Facilitation

Having trouble getting your leadership team to gel? Are there competing priorities or personalities that don’t play well together? This is more common than you think! When you have a team of high drive, high performance individuals, there is bound to be some conflict. The challenge is then to productively use that conflict to drive growth, and most importantly, to ensure that conflict does not become toxic to the team. Our seasoned leadership team has been there, and we have creative solutions! Call us today to start the conversation and schedule a time to help your team rise above!

Small Business Health Assessment

Do you own a business with 50 or less employees? Are you working more hours than you would like to? Do you know if your business is performing well in all of the key functional areas: finance, sales, marketing, operations, HR, IT? Let us help! We will conduct a check-up for your business! Our team will take a deep dive into your business and assess each of these areas with a functional expert. We will then present the results to the you and help you decide on courses of action if necessary, and how to prioritize what’s most important. Call us and let’s get started!

Financial Compliance

Is managing the financial integrity of your business becoming too much? Finance and Accounting are NOT something to ignore! Proper financial maintenance and oversight can truly make or break your business. Let us assess your financial health by reviewing your processes and compliance. We can also help provide insight if you’re considering any major financial decisions. In addition, we can outsource Finance and Accounting  experts to help you manage this part of your business! Our network of Finance experts can help! Call us to schedule a consultation!

Human Resources

How do you know if the HR side of your business is operating properly? Are you up to date on all legal requirements? How about healthcare? Or Performance Management? If you’re not sure, we can help! Our HR Strategic Partner and her team review all processes and check for compliance. We can also outsource HR experts to help you manage this part of your business! Call us to schedule a consultation!

Something different that you are looking for? Let’s have a conversation!
Our Strategic Partner network offers many additional possibilities and solutions!
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